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The novelist Michel Houellebecq has repeatedly claimed that he was at his happiest in life in his first literary incarnation as a little-known troubadour poet,
‘The Cold Summer’ is the latest bestseller from Italy’s most celebrated anti-Mafia judge, politician, and essayist Gianrico Carofiglio. Although the summer of 1992 was indeed
Ottessa Moshfegh is adept at creating difficult, even occasionally repulsive characters: the eponymous sailor of her debut novella McGlue struggles, drunk, to remember if he
When the ancient Egyptian priest and landowner Heqanakhte wrote a series of rather acerbic letters to his extended family sometime during the 12th Dynasty (1991-1802BC),
For so long an enfant terrible of the American literary world, by the end of his life Philip Roth had become one of its elder
In his novels Philip Roth was capable of creating savagely comic scenes, often around sexual encounters, or non-encounters as practised by Portnoy, one of his
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